{"id":31511,"date":"2021-04-28T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/india-covid-funeral-pyres-delhi-crematoriums-space"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:11:59","slug":"indias-covid-crisis-delhi-crematoriums-forced-to-build-makeshift-pyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31511","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Covid crisis: Delhi crematoriums forced to build makeshift pyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grieving relatives of the dead forced to wait hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid cases<\/p>\n<p>Crematoriums in Delhi are being inundated with so many bodies that they have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land as the Covid crisis sweeping India led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/27\/international-aid-arrives-in-india-to-combat-deadly-covid-crisis\">an explosion of new cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crematoriums across the capital are struggling to cope, with grieving relatives forced to wait up to 20 hours for a funeral pyre for their loved ones. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/india-covid-funeral-pyres-delhi-crematoriums-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grieving relatives of the dead forced to wait hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid casesCrematoriums in Delhi are being inundated with so many bodies that they have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of lan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions\/31525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}